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Maxim FinkelsteinDepartment of Mathematical Statistics, University of the Free State, South AfricaTheor Popul Biol 83:15-9. 2013

..The derived lifetime distribution and the corresponding mortality rate can be used for a more flexible statistical analysis of mortality data...

On ordered subpopulations and population mortality at advanced ages

Maxim FinkelsteinDepartment of Mathematical Statistics, University of the Free State, South AfricaTheor Popul Biol 81:292-9. 2012

..These examples are based on vitality models when an organism's initial vitality (resource) is 'consumed' in the course of life in accordance with a simple stochastic process (e.g., the Wiener process with drift or the gamma process)...

On the 'rate of aging' in heterogeneous populations

Maxim FinkelsteinDepartment of Mathematical Statistics, University of the Free State, South AfricaMath Biosci 232:20-3. 2011

..We show that the rate of aging in this case is a function of age and that it increases in (calendar) time when the baseline mortality rate decreases...

..Using this function, the initial lifetime random variable with ultimately decreasing mortality rate is 'weighted' to result in a new random variable, which is already characterized by the increasing mortality rate...